International Global Monitoring Aerospace Systems:
Toward Collaboration in the Defense of MankindSept. 14Currently, mankind lives on only one planet. We are all subject to similar threats: threats that do not distinguish among nations, religions, political parties, or social classes. Irregular solar activity, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, asteroid and comet impacts  these events don't contemplate national boundaries before they strike. So why should we, when defending ourselves from them?This was the issue underlying a scientific conference, 'Space and Global Security of Humanity,' held in Yevpatoria, Ukraine, Sept. 3-6, 2012, bringing together scientists from mainly Russia and Ukraine, with attendees from Kazakstan, Belarus, Germany, and Canada. The only U.S. participation came from two representatives of the LaRouche Policy Institute, Benjamin Deniston and Jason Ross, who presented the leading political, economic and scientific work of Lyndon LaRouche's movement in the United States. The conference was sponsored by a number of large Russian, Ukrainian, and international organizations, but centered around the activity of the International Global Monitoring Aerospace Systems organization, IGMASS. Although the IGMASS proposal has existed for a few years, this particular conference came in the context of Russia's Strategic Defense of Earth (SDE) offer from Fall 2011, a proposal for collaboration between the United States and Russia on both missile defense systems and defending the entire Earth from the threats posed by future asteroid and comet impacts....

Looking to Space To Defend, Develop EarthA presentation to the conference by Jason Ross. 'We are working in the United States,' he said, 'to get the United States working as collaborators against the threat of asteroids, against the threat of earthquakes, against the threat of hurricanes, instead of the 'threat' of Syria or Iran.'

The Economics of Planetary DefenseBenjamin Deniston addressed the conference with a briefing on LaRouchean economics, and how it pertains to the Russian proposal for Strategic Defense of Earth.

Science

End the Folly in Sense-Perception:
Metaphor!by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.'All efficient truth is located, ultimately, within the bounds of the effective intention of what is to be defined as metaphor,' he writes. This is as true for science as it is for Classical artistic composition. Yet science today is steeped in the grave error of reliance on the notion of 'sense-perception as such.' This is the fundamental problem to be addressed.

International

Lavrov Warns:
Arab Autumn May Lead to Nuclear WinterThe Russian Foreign Minister described the escalating violence in the Mideast and North Africa as 'Arab Autumn, and said then added: 'Well, I hope it's not going to the nuclear Winter.' Yet Obama and the British are pushing ahead for confrontation in both Syria and Iran, which could lead to thermonuclear war.

Resistance to Israeli Attack on IranA battery of recent waravoidance interventions by U.S. military and national security figures reflects a growing concern that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu could order an attack on Iran at any moment, and that President Obama has so far failed to deliver the kind of unambiguous warning to Israel that could greatly reduce the risk of an Israeli 'breakaway ally' attack, triggering world war.

National

'Benghazi-gate':
Bring Down Obama Before It's Too LateThe Obama Administration's obvious malfeasance and lying about the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans represents the best handle for mobilizing the political momentum to remove the President.

Economics

Southern Europe Revolts Against Nazi AusterityWave after wave of demonstrations against EU austerity are sweeping Spain, Portugal, and Greece. But the great weakness in the movement is the failure of organizers to put forward a postive programmatic alternative.